If this continues to develop, this rift could grow into a new tectonic plate boundary—splitting the African continent in half ...

(jacus/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Hundreds of millions of years ago, our world looked very different from the way it does ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In one of the hottest places on Earth, along an arid stretch of East Africa’s Afar region, it’s possible to stand on the exact ...

Scientists say they have evidence of a new continental rift forming in southern Africa that could eventually develop into a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An overhead view of the East African Rift, with a river in a cultivated valley flanked by steep cliffs An overhead view of the ...

A piece of East Africa is expected to break off the main continent in tens of millions of years. And if you need any proof, look no further than Kenya's Rift Valley, where a giant, gaping tear opened ...

Gases collected from boiling mineral springs in Zambia contain the chemical signature of having come directly from the ...

Mantle gases detected: High helium isotope ratios in Kafue Rift hot springs show a direct mantle connection, confirming active rifting. Potential continental split: If development continues, the rift ...

Scientists have discovered a long hidden plate boundary near the east coast of Africa that dates back about 180 million years ...